fossil record
The fossil record refers to the collection of preserved remains or traces of plants, animals, and other organisms that lived in the past, offering evidence and insight into the history of life on Earth.
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Related Concepts (26)
- amber fossils
- burgess shale
- common descent
- coprolites
- darwinian evolution
- dinosaurs
- evolution
- evolutionary theory
- extinction
- fossil collecting
- fossil dating
- fossil plants
- fossil preservation
- fossilization
- geological time scale
- human evolution
- index fossils
- macroevolution
- mass extinctions
- morphological evolution
- paleontology
- plant fossils
- taphonomy
- trace fossils
- transformism
- trilobites